Chapter 70

“I don’t, but I’ll bet someone on that floor can tell me. Let’s stop by and see, okay?”

“Why not? Our dance cards are empty at the moment.”

Chris drove to the hospital and went to his mother’s floor. At the nurse’s station, he identified himself and asked when the doctor usually made his rounds in the mornings.

“I’d like very much to talk to him about her condition,” he said.

“He’s usually here by seven, but he’ll just give you a lot of medical mumbo-jumbo,” the nurse said.

“I’m an RN, so I think I can translate the mumbo-jumbo.”

“An RN! Wow! We don’t see too many male nurses around here.”

“Actually, I’m an RN First Assistant, so I spend a lot of time in the OR.”

“I’m even more impressed. I know what you had to go through to achieve that.”

“I wasn’t trying to impress you. What I’m really trying to figure out is how long my mother has. I can’t stay here forever, but I’d hate to fly home only to have to turn around and fly right back.”